Black Orchid Parfum
The plum opens with a dark, jammy sweetness that feels immediately richer than its eau de parfum predecessor, but the rum accord quickly tempers any sugary excess.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Rum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Rum
By the editors · 2 min readThe plum opens with a dark, jammy sweetness that feels immediately richer than its eau de parfum predecessor, but the rum accord quickly tempers any sugary excess. This is a thicker, more concentrated take on the original Black Orchid theme—less sharp gardenia, more emphasis on that boozy, resinous heart that hovers between indulgent and brooding.
As it settles, the ylang-ylang brings a creamy floral element that never quite blooms into full brightness, kept in check by the patchouli and vetiver underneath. The sandalwood rounds everything into something smooth and close to the skin, though it retains that signature Tom Ford density.
This is for someone who found the original Black Orchid interesting but wanted more weight and less powder. It wears like evening fabric—velvet rather than silk—and suits those comfortable with fragrances that announce a mood before announcing themselves.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
